> Was there any particular reason for not enabling hotplug out of the box?
This was like that to preserve things working like they used to (some years ago, when we introduced hotplug) > Btw, the discrepancy in behavior explained in Bug#980752 remains. With > BRIDGE_HOTPLUG=yes, upon startup, the WiFI dongles are brought up > after the fixed interfaces and they don't have any IPv6 EUI64 local > link (fe80) separate from the one on the bridge. However, if they are > plugged in after the bridge is already up, fe80 addresses are > generated for each of the dongles. As a user, I wouldn't know which > one of ifupdown or bridge-utils is at cause. The problem is with neither, I believe. When I saw your setup I learned about hostap ifupdown interfaces option, I didn't knew about it. I'm trying to make a setup that works like you and I think I may have some clues on this, and things point to hostap package and its ifupdown thing, but before extracting something out of my tests I need to know, your hostapd.conf for all those cards, they all have a bridge=br0 line on them? Thanks. -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
